So 23.05 has its first RC - will people who try it please post with details!
Im seeing a regression with ios devices wifi6 ax and mt7915, speeds are rubbish on 23.05
You dont see this issue on snapshot
So the latest snapshot is ok? Branching only happened a couple of weeks ago so I’m a bit surprised they have already diverged. Is it easy to bisect and find the change which introduced the regression?
The WDS issue is also affecting the RC-1.
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Hi,
I mistakenly bought a triple pack of Multy M1s to replace an ageing mesh at home. Price was only £90 for 3. I'm using them in bridge mode- with Openwrt on my main Belkin Router. Unfortunately the stock firmware has lots of issues with WIFI transmission drop out, especially on the 5Ghz band. My Galaxy S22 Ultra keeps dropping the WIFI and falling back to 4G 
I've been in contact with Zyxel support who have tried a couple of beta firmware updates but they haven't helped - I don't think a real fix will come soon from them.
So my question is- Is the wifi support good and stable on Openwrt for this unit? I only want to use them as access points.
What should I load, the latest snapshot or the Release Candidate? Or wait?
If the snapshot works well, can I just stay on that indefinitely? I want to fit and forget.
I'm ok using Putty to SSH into them etc.
Note- for the time being I've split the WIFI into 2.4 and 5Ghz, and I'm just using the 2.4Ghz band, its slow but theres no rush to update.
Test with Belkin OEM firmware
For me OpeWrt MT76x drivers are not stable
I agree that the first part looks ok for me, but I started being concerned when I see :
Wait for OpenWrt to boot and log in via SSH
Transfer the sysupgrade file via SCP
perhaps I should follow some guides ...
Hi @SirLouen
I agree ... unfortunately I am in two minds... buy and try to learn or forget about it ...
which ones, the latest snapshot works correctly, the current 23.05rc1 has issues with AX WiFi and iOS devices.
Have you flashed Belkin OEM firmware on this device? 
For WDS most have already reported an issue with 5Ghz band. Personally I use a full wired mesh and had no problems with 5Ghz nodes, but I have them configured on 2.4Ghz by default because all the devices I have on the network are 2.4Ghz (for 5Ghz I'm using another network). I was mainly looking for cheap devices to do a nice network, and I was planning to buy a couple of Omada around $50, but suddenly I saw this and I though: I can almost double the amount of nodes with the option for a full upgrade to 5Ghz in the future. But not 100% confident if the 5Ghz for WDS will be stable at some point because it's an issue with MTK driver reported by a ton of devices with the same chipset.
As I mentioned I could reproduce this bug in the 2.4 GHz band with 40 MHz channel width. With a 20 MHz 5 GHz channel or without AX it's working fine.
I also don't have other WiFi stability issues, but I don't have Apple devices in use.
Attention: There's a change in the newest builds, the LED button is now correctly mapped to lights_toggle and not BTN_0 any more.
I’m using a pair of Multy M1 (WSM20) at home with wired backbone. I’m currently at 30 days uptime using SNAPSHOT on the router with reliable signal throughout my house and garden. The dumb AP has less uptime, but only because I added it later.
2.4 and 5GHz are working with my Apple and IoT devices.
Neither have needed a restart since being flashed.
Yes, but you’ll be stuck with any security issues that get found later, just as you would with any other software that you don’t update. You will also struggle to install any extra features from OpenWrt’s package manager in the future.
SirLouen ->
for the use that I make the 5 Ghz WIFI of my WSM20 is of an incomparable stability because I have 3 boxes zyXEL to pass the TV in WIFI with for each an Orange UHD TV box
I use MTK drivers
they are in STA/AP with my Orange box.
This mode does not work with Openwrt
LiveBox 6 <- WIFI 5 GHz -> Zyxel WSM20 < - LAN -> TV UHD Orange + computers
I have tried relayd / OpenWrt with its drivers and the TV cuts out very often
for the moment with the MTK drivers the speed is only 400 / 400 M but it is largely sufficient to have the TV channels in 4K
I have also a Belkin RT1800 + a fourth UHD TV witth the same configuration ( USB + samba , SSD & videos )
What ar you doing with the other 6 WSM20 you picked?
Thanks Timothy,
I'm giving Zyxel the last roll of the dice this week to get the stock firmware working. 5Ghz wifi is unstable with my Samsung S22 and Iphone 13- keeps loosing data transmission (wifi strong). The internet check on the phone then dumps me to 4G, but the 4G signal is poor in our area
I'm hoping to use the snapshot- I presume it doesn't include LUCI.
Any idea in default if Openwrt does a dhcp test and then become a dhcp client, or is the dhcp server on until its turned off.
You can include LUCI by adding it in the firmware-selector. Click on the customise drop-down, add luci to the list, let it build and you have your LUCI enabled snapshot ready to download.
DHCP is on by default when you first start, and the router is 192.168.1.1. You could probably customise the image further to force DHCP client at first boot, but that feels risky.
Thanks everyone for your help 
Ok managed to get one flashed. Doing the other two today. I used winscp to transfer the snapshot over. Added Luci manually
Can someone tell me the best wifi settings for 2.4ghz and 5Ghz bands- channel width etc.
Also is it worth adding band steering or other packages? This is a 3 Access Point mesh with wired backhaul. Is turning on 802.11k or 802.11r worth it, or just leave you client to roam? Use different channels for each AP or all the same?
I always turn on 802.11r but not 802.11k as the latter requires the full version of wpad which needs to be installed separately. Having the APs on different, non-overlapping channels is a very good idea! I used a WiFi scanner app on Android to find suitable channels.
With recent OpenWrt releases (I'm talking in general about OpenWrt, my M1s are not in production use), the stability of 802.11r has increased significantly for me and I can, usually, roam seamlessly in the entire house. Just make sure to enable FT-over-the-Air and not FT-over-DS, this should be the default nowadays anyway.
Flashed it as described in the wiki. Now, it is dead, only purple color steady on, factory reset does not work anymore, one ip is visble but neither pingable nor useful for ssh.
I just want to put the info here, will send it back anyways. It is broken for sure. I also wont keep the other two's out of the 3 pack, the factory firmware is that useless... I never saw such a simplistic OS. I always used Tomato FW and the Netgear Wnr3500 has in n-mode better performance than the new wsm20.
Just my notes 